Tag: origami
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Artist Creates Miniature Paper Birds Every Day For An Entire Year
Hi, I am Vaishali, myself & my partner Nayan, we are paper cut artists based in India. We have been making paper cut artworks since one year now. We took up the 365 days challenge of creating Miniature birds using paper and watercolors for this entire year of 2018. Here we are sharing our artworks…
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Paper Artist Creates the Most Amazing Paper Cranes with Feathery Details
Cristian Marianciuc is a paper artist who started an ambitious 100-days project back in 2015: to fold and decorate 1 origami crane every single day as part of a visual diary. After the initial 100 days went by, he made another ambitious decision, and that was to continue his project until he reached 365 cranes…
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Gonzalo Calvo Creates Beautiful Origami Artworks
If you’re like us, you’ve probably folded your fair share of paper aeroplanes, and things that look remotely like hats and boats. Origami artist Gonzalo García Calvo blows our simplified folding techniques out of the water by not only folding some of the most challenging origami designs imaginable, but also skilfully staging the finished results; taking great care…
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Artist Folds a New Paper Crane to Describe Each Day of the Year
Some people like to have a coffee everyday. Some people like to go for a run everyday. Well artist Cristian Mariancius is a little different. Following a bit of a quarter life crisis in 2014, he decided to create an origami paper crane every day as a unique personal journal. According to Cristian, “As a…
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Artist Creates Charming Origami Animals with Unique Wet Folding Technique
Hoang Tien Quyet has been folding paper ever since he was a kid. Amazed at how a flat sheet of paper could transform into a three dimensional object, he kept up the practice as he got older and eventually joined a Vietnam Origami Group forum. It was there that he met many friends who shared…
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Magnificent Dinosaur and Creature Origami by Adam Tran!
Origami artist and chemistry teacher Adam Tram folds some incredibly beautiful objects with paper. From dinosaurs and skeletons to flowers and warriors, it seems nothing is off limits to his folding abilities. Tram is a member of the Vietnam Origami Group, and you can see many more of his pieces on Flickr. And don’t forget, if you’re looking…
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An Origami a Day for a Year by Ross Symons!
Following on from the very popular blog we posted on the amazing kinetic origami by Jo Nakashima HERE, we also stumbled across an amazing 365 day origami project from Ross Symons. Ross decided to fold one origami model every day for a year. He described how this obsession with origami started on Instagram’s blog: “I started with the crane…
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Do-It-Yourself Kinetic Origami That Will Blow Your Mind!
Brazil-based origami artist Jo Nakashima has created a method for building an amazing origami object using a system of 40 paper cubes. For those of you ambitious enough to give it a try he shared a set of instructions on Instructables. Just 45 steps! If you’re not familiar with Nakashima, he runs the most popular instructional origami channel on YouTube, with…
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Surface to Structure: An Origami Exhibition Featuring 80 Paper Artists at Cooper Union
A huge exhibition of 80 contemporary origami artists featuring 120 paper creations is planned to take place this summer at Cooper Union in New York. Cooper Union was the site of the first origami exhibition in the United States 55 years ago. Titled Surface to Structure , the event is curated by Uyen Nguyen who is seeking funding on Indiegogo to…
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Transfixing 3D Paper Patterns by Maud Vantours
Paris-based designer and artist Maud Vantours uses layer upon layer of cut paper to create hypnotizing patterns and textures that translate into set designs, fashion accessories, and editorial treatments. Vantors has explored a number of 3D paper treatments including floral patterns, spirals, and gemometric designs. You can see more of her work at Figure and over on Behance. And don’t forget, if you’re…